The Work of the BSA: 2024 Annual Open Lecture 2024 Athens
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Thursday 15th February 2024, the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens.
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January 25, 2024
University of Athens, Hellenic Parliament & BSA Conference: Το 1821 στην Πρώτη Σελίδα: Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση στον Διεθνή και Εγχώριο Τύπο
The Philhellenism project goes to Parliament!! Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director), Roderick Beaton (BSA Chair), and Michalis Sotiropoulos (1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies) will be speaking in the conference Το […]
Prof Gerasimos Tsourapas “Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean”
The emerging international relations literature on states’ migration diplomacy traditionally centres on how cross-border mobility affects, and is affected by, governmental …
Prof. Amy Bogaard – “Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond”
The climate and biodiversity crises are prompting new conversations about the archive of human experience we can draw upon to address them. Archaeology in Greece…
Dr Stamatoula Panagakou, “Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet”
Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the most important British Idealist philosophers. Author of numerous books which cover topics from logic, metaphysics and aesthetics to ethics, religion and political philosophy…
Panel Discussion chaired by Prof Edith Hall, “Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth”
Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss the opportunities and challenges which come with retelling ancient myths for a modern audience. Are the original myths expanded……
Professor Amy Smith “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”
In anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria, with a focus on its central figure…
Richard Clogg, “Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece”
SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was established in July 1940 when Britain’s fortunes, following the Dunkirk evacuation, were at their lowest ebb. It is sometimes suggested that Britain at this juncture stood alone against the might of the Axis but Britain was able to call on the resources of the
Minoan Seminar, “The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods”
The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some extent in MacGillivray’s book Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (1998). The three West Court Kouloures were constructed….
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
More than any other population group, the Muslims who left Crete epitomise the trauma and paradoxes of the 1923 population exchange. They were intensely attached to the island, monoglot in Greek, and shared a material culture with their Christian neighbours. While thousands of Muslims had already left the island in the preceding decades…